The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-11

penned bv Spies own hand. stared out OF
the 1 ,'betcf ZeituRq After the papers |
were off and their editors had swallowed
hasty supper IL is known that SWes, Iar-
sous Schwab, Fielder, Fischer, aud other
ruling spirits mostly members Of the sell
same ''nrmcd sections that held the Greits
Hall conclaVe went into close session at lhe
International headquarters in the Arbetef
/eitpHp building, where reports by messeh-
ger and telephone were received as the
moments sped. 80,
Lingg's crew of bomb-malers were still
assiduously at work. For some reason ne
himself was unable to remain with them
all the time, and the evening found MN
cursing their slow progress. 1t was some
time after so p. m.--the hour mentioned
for the Haymarket meeting TO begin
when Liugg put into a little trunk Wnat
bombs were ready-some fifty or slNty--
ana started with his burden for the APP
pointed rendezvous, an Anarchists saloon
near by, known rs Nelfs Hall, IS Clybourn
avenue He was mot on the way by mes
songer who had come to hurry him along
| The trunk was left open III passage way
of toe saloon, and without more ado men
began dropping in quietly, alone or IN
! couples,
PoCKETING BOMB OR TWO
each aud vanishing into the darkness. THIS
celebrity may have somewhat mollihed
! Llngg, but his delay was HVO tle ohiy
stumbling block of the reds.
Twenty-Five thousand people, the An
archst leaders estimated, would be gathered
together in the Haymarket. This was not
| an extravagant expectation, when I2,uOO
| had been so easily massed near Nc
! Cormick's. But fear of further riot
ing kept pretty much everybody
at home except about 1000
men nearly all of them Enthusiastically An
! nd inpGS the
crowd made the Anarchist Leaders pause.
| The social revolution backed by a mob of
! workmen, %, 900 strong, had changed to a
prospective fight between Anarchists alone
on one side and the police in force on the
other 1t was evident TO the most casual
spectator in the Haymarket that a hitch
| existed somewhere, and apparently the
meetings managers were all completely at
sea.
The great dim lighted square was decl-
dedly uncanny scene, with its scattered
| groups of gesticulatng, trampish-looklng
occupants lining the sidewalks and pouring
in and out of the rickety surrounding sa-
looms. The Arbeiter Zeitunp conference OF
leaders had been prolonged one, and when
at last Spies. Parsons, Fielder and the rest
reached the Haymarket Square they seemed
BENT ON A WAITING GAME.
It will probably never be known whether
|
Inv of Lingg's confederates, a proposed aban'
donment of the outbreak, or the hope that
the police would attack and attempt to dis
Derse the dangerous looking crowd before
the speaking should begin, thus relieving
the leaders from appearing to incite riot.
Finally, an hour and q half late, spies
Parsons and Fielder addressed the crowd
in the order named, nsing wagon for then
rostrum. The first two, In comparison will
their usual harangues, were tame as pail
of doves. Gradually the crowd thinned
out. No police interfered, and the chance
the ''redsh had waited months for wa
nearly gone. The meeting would be q
laughing stock to the public, the leaders
would be discredited by even their own ilk
and
THE RUHE-sIGNAL
would mean not the social revolution
begun. but the international Association
| collapsed.
Fielden was worthy the occasion III
had been in the background on the wager
with Scbnaubelt, the bomb-thrower, Spie
and other directing minds, who saw plainly
that something must be done, and quickly
Therefore, when his turn came, Fielder
stepped boldly to the front, discarding al
! r,retense of mildness. He electrified tn
rabbie ut once. The crowd swayed excited
IN backward and forward in the marrow
{ shadowy confines of Desplaines street. init
: which thew had come from the open square
and pressed eagerly closer 10 the Pickering
gnslamp that lighted the speakers shaggily
bearded and powerful form. When b.
; tragically urged the wrought-up mon
p standing in plain view of police station, I
throttle and kill the law the disguise
officers in the crowd saw the necessity OF
> PROMPT ACTION,
I and word was passed to their commander.
| IL fatI hn ,loip traf
tions of the State law covering exactl
! such cases, gave orders to have the meetin
. | dispersed Seven companies of police, II
: men. led by himself and Capt. War;
marched in platoon, extending from cur
i! TO curb, the short distance on Desplalne
: street from the station to the speaker
! wagon, As the police approached. bIeide
I blood -hounds You do your duty, and i
do mine" Capt Ward, in loud voice
=. called out: Sin the name of the people {
= the State of Illinois, / command You
S peaceably dispense" Fielden, steppin
] down from the wagon, gave the ''ruhe' e,
|, clamation: ave are peaceable." Instant
r the bomb was thrown, the first in fire.
! America.
d A sputturing spark in the air, on IL
ground a binding burst-that was al
Blackness was everywhere. The pygm
cracking of the pistol-shots out from I'll
70 mob damned sidewalks, few tall forms
n the street rapidly closing together, the tlas
r and smoke VI volley after volley from thel
= and the rear platoons, then the din BEGAN
IS bideous VITO the groaning of mangled mel
g and the yells Of rage and fear in the vii
p scramble for escape.
!. THE SEQUEL
:, has stretched out to to-day. Foremost It i
{ cludes the death Of seven bomb-slain polio
d aud the slow recovery of sixty Office
It wounded The immediate arrest Of all Il
Is chief Indicators. barring Persons alon
y was followed by their prompt arraIgnmel
for murder June 81, before Judge Joseph
Gary, who proved himself as able as he
worthy. The escape Of Schnaubelt, II
= actual throger Of the bomb who was 81
y free before his importance had been su
u spected, was blunder only equaled by Il
mistake ON the opposite side when Pa
= sons made his sensational voluntary su
render.
!, THE FIRST DAY IN COURT.
Is Two months precisely was the length
/. the trial, engrossing from day TO day the q
n teution of the civilized world. Whatev,
o legal talent could do was exhausted by q
Is defense under the direction of Capt. Blac
Il while States Attorney Grinnell directs
Il the prosecution with a skill reaching ever
N point.
Al Death sentences for all but Neebe, al
a.. ,&an;taptfary for him. the tour